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WaveStack help

How to use WaveStack on the Mac, Windows and iPad, and inside your DAW. New to wavetables? Start with How wavetables work, then Getting started.

Basics

• Getting started

  Install WaveStack, find your way around the window, and make, hear and save your first wavetable.

• Library, files and saving

  Add wavetable folders, open and organize files, save tables, and understand drafts and what a WaveStack file keeps.

• Tables, views and selecting

  Rows, grids and volumes, the 3D, Grid and Cube views, the view navigator, selecting frames, and changing a table's size and frame size.

Making tables

• Drawing and shaping frames

  The frame editor's Pencil, Line, Curve and Harmonics tools, regions and limits, and the shapes, processing and Filter & phase in the Edit tab.

• Keyframes and in-between frames

  Mark a few frames as keyframes and let WaveStack morph the frames between them, with control over timing and morph style.

• Building tables

  Build sweeps one seed wave into a row, grid or volume, changing brightness, fold, sync, filters and more along each axis.

• Importing samples, wavetables and images

  Open Serum, Surge and WaveStack tables, turn recordings and single cycles into frames, and read images as depth maps.

• Morph between tables

  Turn two to six tables or images into the layers of a 3D volume, with the layers between them morphed.

Sound and export

• Sound and playing

  Play tables from the computer keyboard, a MIDI controller or the on-screen keyboard, scan through them, and shape the sound with envelopes, a filter, LFOs and modulation routes.

• Exporting

  Export a table for Serum, Vital, Ableton, the Deluge, the Disting and more, link a synth's folder or SD card, and use Other tools for anything else.

Other ways to use WaveStack

• Plugin mode

  Use WaveStack as a CLAP, VST3 or Audio Unit instrument in your DAW: installing, loading tables, automation, tempo sync and what's different from the app.

• WaveStack on the iPad

  How the iPad app differs from the desktop: touch gestures, the on-screen keyboard, your files, exporting through the share sheet, MIDI, and the AUv3 plugin for GarageBand, Logic, AUM and other hosts.

Reference

• WaveStack Pro

  What WaveStack Pro adds, what stays free, and how licenses, the trial and the iPad purchase work.

• Settings

  Color schemes, interface size, 3D view options, WaveStack Pro and usage data.

• Keyboard shortcuts

  Every keyboard shortcut in WaveStack, for playing, selecting, editing and files.

• Troubleshooting

  Fixes for common problems: Windows warnings, files that won't open, tables that sound wrong on a synth, MIDI, and the plugin.

Can't find what you need, or found something wrong? Email hello@samplestack.app.